Monday, August 15, 2016

First Day

This picture just about sums it all up.Kenson is too cool.Conleigh is posing.Zeke has an excited smile.And Kai...well he's being a complete ham and stealing the big kids' thunder.

As for the actual first day, Zeke had an amazing first day. He had so much to tell me. He saw a garter snake on the field and played soccer and basketball with Cole and Camden and some other people whose names he didn't know. He grabbed my hand as we walked to the van and told me how he should have brought his lunch from home because they had cooked carrots for lunch. (He hates cooked carrots.) Then he was on to telling me that he already knew what he wanted for lunch tomorrow and that we needed to run to Walmart to get it. When I pressed him more on this, telling him that I had things for lunch, he was quite insistent that we go to Walmart. He couldn't tell me the name of what he wanted so I made my best guess. "Lunchables? Did you see lots of people eating Luncheables?" Yep, that was it. (I don't think I have every bought my children Luncheables but my kids constantly beg for them. I ought to break down and buy them that as a treat when I head to the store on Thursday.) He then proceeded to tell me how the only thing bad about the day was that it was a short day and that he wished it had been a full day instead of early dismissal. He used his scissors and his glue and his teacher read like 10 books but he didn't remember any of them. He was such a chatterbox.

As for his hands, that was the second thing on his list. Lots of people asked and he chose to ignore them. I asked him how he thought that would work since they might ask tomorrow but he changed the subject. "Well except for this one boy. I told him that a shark bit off my hands and he said 'really?'"

As to the big kids, they were a lot less chatty. Surprise, surprise. I did manage to find out what they did at recess and what they ate for lunch.

Julie had her first day back to school and yes, she came home and talked about someone eating "lunchables" too....and I think "how gross"...but I guess kids think its special. Julie had baked beans and grilled sausage in her lunch and that sounds alot better to me than lunchables!

I had to laugh at Zeke telling someone a shark bit off his fingers! That's one little guy I hope to meet someday...he sounds hilarious!!!

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We're a family of six: Mom, Dad, our near twins, Kenson Jules (7), Conleigh Deme (6 1/2), Ezekiel Jian (3 ) and Malachi Stillman also known as Kai. (Kai's the baby.) Our oldest two are Haitian born. Kenson came home in January 2009 and Conleigh came home on Humanitarian Parole following the January 2010 earthquake. We traveled to China in October of 2012 to bring home Zeke. We hope our blog serves as an entry point for our friends and family as they watch our family grow. So, come on in and relax with us for a while. Back door friends are always the best!

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Jeremiah 29:11-13"For I know the plans I have for you, " declares the Lord, "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your hearts."

James 1:27Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress...Mother TheresaI have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody (to no one).